Martinka Consulting

APRIL 25, 2018

For sports fans, and especially reporters, spring is a busy time of the year. Baseball season is starting, March Madness, NFL free agency and draft, and the winter leagues heading to the playoffs. Football fans feel angst when because of (primarily) salary cap issues teams let fan favorites go; Richard Sherman in Seattle, Jordy Nelson in Green Bay, and many others (both of those mentioned probably in their respective team’s Hall of Fame).

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2018

Raymond Gehman/Getty Images. Today, monitoring technologies are increasingly inexpensive—and staggeringly expansive. This has made it easier than ever for managers to intensively monitor employees at work. These technologies run the gamut, from body-worn cameras and closed-circuit televisions, to traceable identification cards and keystroke trackers.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2018

hamzaturkkol/Getty Images. When employees lack self-confidence, it can be hard to get them to perform at their best. So how can you help them excel at their job? What kind of coaching should you provide? What’s the best way to boost their self-esteem? And how do you deal with your own frustration around their insecure behavior? What the Experts Say.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 25, 2018

You can approach life in one of two ways. You can focus on surviving, or you can focus on thriving. There’s a time and place for both approaches. Like most things in life, neither is inherently good or bad. These approaches are merely tools — to be applied in the appropriate situation. More than approaches to life, they are categories of skills. Surviving is a skill set.

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Chad Barr

APRIL 25, 2018

It’s Wednesday, middle of the week, and time for reflection once again. It’s been a busy start to my week; calls, consulting and all the work that I enjoy so much. I’ve just dropped my wife, Laurel, off at the airport so she can fly to Orlando to watch the grandkids, (lucky grandma), as our son in law and daughter fly to a big job interview up north.

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Strategy+Business

APRIL 25, 2018

Your company may have a big problem in the stories people tell each other. Deceptive organizational messages may be embedded in the culture and repeated throughout the company as a matter of course. Four types of deceptive messages are prevalent in business: misperceptions of risk, value, proficiency, and validity. The principle of neuroplasticity suggests you can relabel and reframe these messages, bringing them to the surface and consciously developing new narratives that more closely express

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Henry DeVries

APRIL 25, 2018

During conversations with a prospect the goal of an independent consultant should be to monopolize the listening. A good rule of thumb is to listen 80 percent of the time and talk 20 percent.

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Strategy+Business

APRIL 25, 2018

Your company may have a big problem in the stories people tell each other. Deceptive organizational messages may be embedded in the culture and repeated throughout the company as a matter of course. Four types of deceptive messages are prevalent in business: misperceptions of risk, value, proficiency, and validity. The principle of neuroplasticity suggests you can relabel and reframe these messages, bringing them to the surface and consciously developing new narratives that more closely express

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Rod Burkert

APRIL 25, 2018

If you’re not using social media to find leads and engage with your prospects, clients, and referral sources I hope our last conversation inspires you to take another look at the available tools. If you are using social media to do this, I hope that conversation inspires you to step it up a notch to see how much better you can get at it! On to this week.

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Strategy+Business

APRIL 25, 2018

Your company may have a big problem in the stories people tell each other. Deceptive organizational messages may be embedded in the culture and repeated throughout the company as a matter of course. Four types of deceptive messages are prevalent in business: misperceptions of risk, value, proficiency, and validity. The principle of neuroplasticity suggests you can relabel and reframe these messages, bringing them to the surface and consciously developing new narratives that more closely express

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LSA Global

APRIL 25, 2018

Good Managers Are Great Communicators. Managers, listen up…good managers are great communicators. A lot of what makes a good manager is the ability to communicate well. The best managers know how to really listen and how to communicate with both power and empathy. It’s not a matter of adhering to one method as in the cartoon above; but rather, good managers are great communicators because they communicate with clarity, relevance and purpose.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2018

HBR Staff/Arata Photography/Getty Images. “Cheetos! Please Cheetos!” Riku Nakamura’s daughter, Akari, lunged toward the grocery store shelf. His wife, Aoi, sighed. “Remind me: Why are we walking down this aisle again?” “I wanted to see how rice cakes are displayed. I don’t understand why our rice crackers can’t be in this section, too.” Aoi nodded at the Cheetos bag Akari was now clutching to her chest. “Maybe you need to add fluorescen

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MBO Partners

APRIL 25, 2018

Four ways organizations can overcome barriers to successfully engage independent professionals and become more agile in today's competitive business environment.

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Cheryl Cran

APRIL 25, 2018

There’s no question we are living and working in head spinning times. On one hand we have major challenges with world and local events (politics, traumatic events) – on the other we have major progress being made with movements led by change makers (diversity, equality, protection laws). It’s easy to get swept up in the negative as we head to an uncertain future – we can worry about our safety and we can believe that robots are taking jobs and we can worry about what the future means for us pers

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Leadership Vision Consulting

APRIL 25, 2018

The sheer purpose of a vegetable peeler is to shave off an outer layer, perhaps a layer that is too tough or bitter; to change the state of the fruit or vegetable. In this post, Carrie describes her restlessness and inability to settle down long enough to pay attention to this needed change. Here are four things Carrie learned as she applied the philosophy of the vegetable peeler to herself.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

A note to the customer who just had a meltdown. To the groom without a perfect wedding, to the rental car customer who had to wait twenty minutes, and to the boss who's furious that the delivery wasn't as promised. We heard you. We, as in the people you were seeking to impact, and we as in the rest of us as well, the innocent bystanders. Actually, we heard you the first time.

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